![]() It remains one of the major works done during the Renaissance era.Įarlier, the building of Greeks, Egyptian civilizations like the Parthenon, the temples, and cathedrals were constructed using the imperial measurement of units. The drawing is kept at the Galleriedell’Accademia in Venice, Italy since 1882 and is exhibited rarely. Therefore, this demonstration proves his quote -“Realize that everything connects to everything else.” He also explored the relationship of the human body with nature. He exhibited that a man with his feet securely on the ground and arms extended out can be accommodated within a square and in a spread-eagle position can be inscribed in a circle. Always been interested in anatomical studies, Leonardo Da Vinci represented the structural stability of the human body and related the same with architecture in this creation. The pen and ink human figures drawings show two male figures overlapping each other in different positions and inscribed in a square and a circle. ![]() It is also known as the ‘Canon of Proportions’ and ‘Proportions of a man’. Leonardo Da Vinci drew ‘The Vitruvius Man’ around 1487, based on De Architectura, an architectural treatise by the renowned Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Leonardo Da Vinci | Human Figures Drawings
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